Bad Trips: A Sometimes Terrifying, Sometimes Hilarious Collection of Writing on the Perils of the Road

by Keath Fraser

Book Overview

The entries in this collection take us to the farthest extremes of travel with tales of danger, disorientation and bemused discomfort; combines reportage, fiction and poetry representing some of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679729089
• ISBN13: 9780679729082
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A Book for Travelers to a More Than Planned Vacation

Bad Trips is divided into various short stories by notoriously famous authors. Mamet, Geldof, Greene, and Updike, to name a few create very funny short essays of their unusual and sometimes precarious trips throughout the world. I would recommend this book to someone taking a cross-country trip for example from Seattle to Atlanta in a big van carrying unneccessary items on bald tires traveling through the winter months and sleeping in friends of friends houses while trying to use outdated maps. Anyone who has ever taken a "not as planned trip" will enjoy this book!

Humorous and thought provoking

Humorous and well written, as would be expected, given the talent of the authors. I was also left looking at my own travels in a new light, and it had me reevaluating some of my own mishaps, which generally are, after all, what maskes travelling interesting (as long as the outcome wasn't too dire). Through this it has added to the enjoyment of my own memories. High praise, I think.